without focus

Yesterday was a very bad day. I just get distracted too soon. When I left the computer room to print the article on the metaphor identification procedure (MIP) it turned out that the printers weren’t working due to a power outage the previous night. Now I had to come up with alternative way to print it since reading this article was the most important thing planned for the day. I went downstairs to the computers of the university in general (not the computers of the Faculty of Arts) on which you can work for 20 minutes. These computers are meant to check your email and stuff and you’re supposed to stand (They are called ‘stand-computers’). In theory it should be possible to print from there to a printer right next to them. Unfortunately, this printer wasn’t working properly either, though the power was turned on and it could still be used for copying. This ‘stand-computer’ wasn’t available right away. It was around 1, which meant lunch break for the entire school. I read a chapter from Bleakhouse while I had to wait, which was nice. When this alternative printing method turned out to be a failure I had to think of another. I put the document on USB so that I could print it out at the copy centre. I made the mistake of putting the document in a subfolder instead of just keeping it in the main, which meant that I had to go up and down to the 10th floor twice. After having done this I could print it from the machines in the basement.

Unfortunately, this adventure had upset my planning of the day. I didn’t have the ability to handle this with care. I went home to have a meal (in the morning I had got up late, which meant that I hadn’t had time to make and bring sandwiches) and turned the television on. I slowly ate eight slices and then when upstairs. I couldn’t turn my mind back to my studies and again watch TV. Mostly useless, except parts of Switzerland-Turkey. At 11 I turned it off and read in the small history of nearly everything. Doing that gave me a much better feeling than the other things I did. So why then do I not do that more?